How to format your references using the IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

[1]

T. Reichhardt, “Safety concerns force NASA to condemn satellite to fiery end,” Nature, vol. 404, no. 6777, p. 423, Mar. 2000.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Y.-H. M. Chan and W. F. Marshall, “How cells know the size of their organelles,” Science, vol. 337, no. 6099, pp. 1186–1189, Sep. 2012.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J. D. Parker, D. E. Burkepile, and M. E. Hay, “Opposing effects of native and exotic herbivores on plant invasions,” Science, vol. 311, no. 5766, pp. 1459–1461, Mar. 2006.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

H. Shen et al., “Structural basis for the modulation of voltage-gated sodium channels by animal toxins,” Science, vol. 362, no. 6412, Oct. 2018.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

[1]

V. Mihajlovic-Madzarevic, Clinical Trials Audit Preparation. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2010.

An edited book

[1]

P. L. Herrling, A. Matter, and M. Rudin, Eds., Imaging in Drug Discovery and Early Clinical Trials, vol. 62. in Progress in Drug Research, vol. 62. Basel: Birkhäuser, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J. A. Blair, “What Is the Right Amount of Support for a Conclusion?,” in Groundwork in the Theory of Argumentation: Selected Papers of J. Anthony Blair, C. W. Tindale, Ed., in Argumentation Library. , Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2012, pp. 51–59.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine.

Blog post

[1]

J. Davis, “Global Summit On The Illegal Wildlife Trade Opens In South Africa,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/global-summit-on-the-illegal-wildlife-trade-opens-in-south-africa/

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

[1]

Government Accountability Office, “Space Acquisitions: Government and Industry Partners Face Substantial Challenges in Developing New DOD Space Systems,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-09-648T, Apr. 2009.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

K. Subramanian, “Mechanisms and Effect of Microstructure on High Temperature Deformation of Gamma-TiAl Based Alloys,” Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 2003.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

[1]

J. Kanter, “European Leaders Debate Proposals for Closer Military Ties,” New York Times, p. A6, Sep. 16, 2016.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1], [2].
This sentence cites four references [1], [2], [3], [4].

About the journal

Full journal title	IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine
Abbreviation	IEEE Comput. Intell. Mag.
ISSN (print)	1556-603X
Scope	Artificial Intelligence Theoretical Computer Science